Member: johnclaydon

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About meInterests include: history, systems theory, health information technology, higher education, scientific publishing, complementary medicine, health self-care, nutrition, research methods, and aging,

About my libraryMy catalog includes books I have read, that I now have, and that I want to read.

GroupsBuild the Open Shelves Classification, Capital Markets, Common Knowledge, WikiThing, HelpThing, Free Software, History at 30,000 feet: The Big Picture, Interaction Design, Libertarian Cooking, Social Networks, The Best Bits of Business Thinking, Web 2.0 Innovative Thinkers

Favorite authorsHoward Aldrich, Walter L. Arnstein, Robert Axelrod, Barrington J. Bayley, Jerry H. Bentley, T.C.W. Blanning, Maggie Boden, Kenneth E. Boulding, Robert Brenner, John Brockman, Damien Broderick, John le Carré, Christopher Chase-Dunn, Andy Clark, Randall Collins, David Corn, Daniel C. Dennett, Freeman Dyson, Barry Eichengreen, M. I. Finley, Heinz von Foerster, M. A. Foster, Andre Gunder Frank, John W. Garver, Clifford Geertz, Anthony Giddens, Bartholomew Gill, Barry K. Gills, Peter Godfrey-Smith, Ramachandra Guha, Jürgen Habermas, Irfan Habib, Cyril Hare, Francis Heylighen, Edward D. Hoch, Geoffrey Holmes, Alf Hornborg, H. Stuart Hughes, Michael Isikoff, Eric Janszen, E. L. Jones, H. R. F. Keating, Paul Kennedy, Charles P. Kindleberger, George Lichtheim, John D. MacDonald, Michael Mann, Bruce Mazlish, William H. McNeill, George Modelski, Joel Mokyr, Michael Murray, Michael Murray, John Newman, Douglass C. North, Joseph S. Nye, Jr., Geoffrey Parker, John P. Powelson, Anatol Rapoport, Thomas E. Ricks, Richard Rorty, Michel Ivanovic Rostovtseff, Murray N. Rothbard, Stephen K. Sanderson, Gene Sharp, Ben Shneiderman, Georges Simenon, Gillian Slovo, W. Thompson, Thucydides, Charles Tilly, Stephen Edelston Toulmin, Jerome Tuccille, Roberto Mangabeira Unger, P.U. Unschuld, Gore Vidal, Immanuel Wallerstein, Max Weber, David Weinberger, Tim Weiner, Chris Wickham, Charles Wilson, Edmund Wilson (Shared favorites)

Favorite publishersNew Society Publishers, University of California Press, W.W. Norton

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Real nameJohn Claydon

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Member sinceJan 26, 2007

Currently readingCooperation Works!: How People Are Using Cooperative Action to Rebuild Communities and Revitalize the Economy by E. G. Nadeau
The Great Powers and the European States System, 1815-1914 by F.R. Bridge
Bangkok 8: A Novel by John Burdett
Readings in the Philosophy of Social Science (Bradford Books) by Michael Martin
Foundations of Cognitive Science: The Essential Readings (Paragon Issues in Philosophy) by Jay L. Garfield
The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window into Human Nature by Steven Pinker
Crises in the World-System (No Series Description Provided) by Albert Bergesen
Thinking Through System Thinking by Ion Georgiou
Views into the Chinese Room: New Essays on Searle and Artificial Intelligence by John Preston
Boomerang: Health Care Reform and the Turn Against Government by Theda Skocpol
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